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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22236, 13 April 1934, Page 10

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Mr Arthur Moody, of Auckland, returned north yesterday morning. Mr W. Taylor, general manager of Kempthorne, Prosser s .New Zealand Drug Company, left by the through.express yesterday morning, en route to Auckland. With full military honours the remains of the Crimean veteran, Mr A. J. Crawford, were interred in the Naseby Cemetery on Tuesday. There was a large attendance at the funeral.

Mr A. B. Lane, manager of the New Zealand Press Association, left Wellington for Sydney by the Wanganella yesterday, and expects to be absent from the Dominion for about a month. He is accompanied by Mrs Lane. The Executive Committee of the Wellington Competitions Society has appointed the following judges for the next competitions (reports a Press Association telegram):—Vocal, Mr Kenneth North (Sydney); elocution, Mr Howlett Ross (Melbourne); assistant adjudicator elocution, Mr Barton Ginger (Wellington) ; fancy dancing, Miss Jean Home (Auckland) ; national dancing, Mr Braid (Hawera); instrumental music, Mr Vernon Griffiths (Dunedin). A Gazette notice issued last night announces that the Teachers' Appeal Board for 1934 will consist of the following members:—Chairman, Mr T. R. Cresswell; representatives of the Education Department—Mr W. S. La Trobe, Mr E. J. Parr, and Dr J. W. M'llraith; representatives of the teachers of secondary schools, Mr F. H. Campbell and Mr J. A. Colquhoun; technical schools, Mr T. B. Bowring and Mr A. M. Jones; primary schools—Mr W. F.Abel, Mr F. A. Garry, Mr G. F. Griffiths, and Miss Margaret E. Magill. The Rev. G. H. M'Neur, the first Presbyterian missionary to China, was welcomed at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery on Wednesday morning by the moderator (Mr W. H. Rose). Mr M'Neur said that, while he was officially on furlough, he was working here to create interest in missions. If the mission work in China was to be carried on by the next generation, it was essential that " mission-mindedness" should be created among the young people. Mr J. N. Greenland, manager in Christchurch for the Union Steam Ship Company, who is leaving to take a similar position in Auckland, and Mr A. R. Thompson, who is to take over his position in Christchurch, -were the guests of the Lyttelton Harbour Board at its meeting on Wednesday. The chairman and several members spoke in praise of Mr Greenland's work in Christchurch, and welcomed Mr Thompson. Mr Greenland, in reply, said that the port facilities had greatly improved, and were now quite adequate to deal with the traffic coming to Lyttelton. Mr Hector Bolitho, an Aucklander, who. since he left New Zealand, has achieved considerable distinction abroad, returned by the Marama on Tuesday for a holiday. Mr Bolitho. who was formerly in journalism in Auckland, travelled extensively in the years following 1922. The work that brought him before the public, and particularly before the American public, was " The Flame on ,Ethirdova," published in 1930, but he attracted most notice in England by his historical work, "Albert the Good: A Life of the Prince Consort," published in 1932. For some time he lived at the Deanery, Windsor Castle, where he collaborated with the dean in several works. Mr Bolitho was born in Auckland and went to the Devonport district school.